Prior findings indicate that trait anhedonia enhances the likelihood of becoming a tobacco
smoker, and preliminary evidence suggests that smoking abstinence leads to anhedonic …

Background Temporal discounting, the preference for immediate over delayed rewards,
affects decision-making in domains like health and finance. Understanding the differences in …

In this paper, we introduce discrete choice experiments (DCEs) and provide foundational
knowledge on the topic. DCEs are one of the most popular methods within econometrics to …

According to the literature, individuals who start tobacco smoking during adolescence are at
greater risk of developing severe tobacco addiction and heavier smoking behavior in …

Delay discounting, the decrease in outcome value as a function of delay to receipt, is an
extensive area of research. How delays are framed (ie, temporal framing), as well as the …

Delayed reward discounting (DRD) refers to the extent to which an individual devalues a
reward based on its delay in time and has been linked to a wide variety of health behaviors …

A growing body of evidence suggests that engagement in episodic future thinking (EFT)
could reduce delay discounting rates. However, little is known about whether individual …

Delay discounting describes how rapidly delayed rewards lose value as a function of delay
and serves as one measure of impulsive decision-making. Nicotine deprivation among …

Objectives Despite a rich history of behavioral economic research on substance use there
remains a need for further exploration of behavioral mechanisms that may underlie the …

High delay discounting (DD) rates are associated with several health conditions, including
addiction. Investigators interested in the modulation of DD rates may be interested in …